Under An Alias - Genius Loci Festival
2012, Weimar Germany
One of the most exciting projects I have participated in was “Under An Alias” — a 3D projection mapping installation created for the Genius Loci Weimar Festival in 2012, produced by Nerdworking under the artistic direction of NOH Lab. I designed and animated the motion segments between 9:17 and 11:00 minutes, drawing inspiration from Wassily Kandinsky (a former teacher at the Bauhaus) and supervised the entire mapping process.
The festival, held in Weimar—a city deeply woven into Europe’s cultural and intellectual history—commissioned the piece for the Fürstenhaus / Franz Liszt Conservatory façade, where it was shown nightly over several festival nights. Nohlab “Under An Alias” reinterprets Weimar’s evolution, beginning from abstract origin, through decaying wartime phases, the rise of Bauhaus (with a nod to Kandinsky), then industrialization, concluding with a gentle farewell illustrating the city’s delicate balance of peace and order. Nohlab
The work was produced by a team of 22 cross-disciplinary creators—architects, new-media artists, sound designers, mapping technicians, and the festival’s staff—and won an honorary mention at Ars Electronica 2012.
Design and Art Direction: NOHlab (Candaş Şişman - Deniz Kader)
Motion Design and Animation Teams:
Fehmican Gözüm
Gökalp Gönen
Saygın Soher
Sinan Büyükbaş
Ouchhh:
Creative Director: Ferdi Alıcı
3D Artists & Designers: Çağlar Özen, Emre Önol, Ferdi Alıcı
2D Artists & Designers: Dilan Tanrıkulu Regal, Harun Kerem Köse, Yusuf Emre Kucur
Compositing: Ferdi Alıcı
Robotika:
CG Supervisor: Coşku Özdemir
3D Artists & Designers : Davut Toy, Vikram Puttanna
Sound Design: Alp Coksoyluer, Giray Gürkal, Görkem Şen
Architectural 3D Modelling: Kerem Asfuroğlu
Architectural 3D Mapping: Fehmican Gözüm
Storyboard Artist: İsmail Anıl Güzeliş
Documentation: Cansu Turan
Project Management: NERDWORKING (Erdem Dilbaz)
Render Farm: RenderRider
Special Thanks to Gökçen Dilek Açay, İkinciParti Prodüksiyon, Stefan Kraus
The festival, held in Weimar—a city deeply woven into Europe’s cultural and intellectual history—commissioned the piece for the Fürstenhaus / Franz Liszt Conservatory façade, where it was shown nightly over several festival nights. Nohlab “Under An Alias” reinterprets Weimar’s evolution, beginning from abstract origin, through decaying wartime phases, the rise of Bauhaus (with a nod to Kandinsky), then industrialization, concluding with a gentle farewell illustrating the city’s delicate balance of peace and order. Nohlab
The work was produced by a team of 22 cross-disciplinary creators—architects, new-media artists, sound designers, mapping technicians, and the festival’s staff—and won an honorary mention at Ars Electronica 2012.
Design and Art Direction: NOHlab (Candaş Şişman - Deniz Kader)
Motion Design and Animation Teams:
Fehmican Gözüm
Gökalp Gönen
Saygın Soher
Sinan Büyükbaş
Ouchhh:
Creative Director: Ferdi Alıcı
3D Artists & Designers: Çağlar Özen, Emre Önol, Ferdi Alıcı
2D Artists & Designers: Dilan Tanrıkulu Regal, Harun Kerem Köse, Yusuf Emre Kucur
Compositing: Ferdi Alıcı
Robotika:
CG Supervisor: Coşku Özdemir
3D Artists & Designers : Davut Toy, Vikram Puttanna
Sound Design: Alp Coksoyluer, Giray Gürkal, Görkem Şen
Architectural 3D Modelling: Kerem Asfuroğlu
Architectural 3D Mapping: Fehmican Gözüm
Storyboard Artist: İsmail Anıl Güzeliş
Documentation: Cansu Turan
Project Management: NERDWORKING (Erdem Dilbaz)
Render Farm: RenderRider
Special Thanks to Gökçen Dilek Açay, İkinciParti Prodüksiyon, Stefan Kraus
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Genius Loci Weimar is an exciting international festival for multimedia facade projections and site-specific audiovisual performances. The festival combines the historical spirit of Weimar and the contemporary techniques of video mapping, involving static objects in order to create an additional geometrical dimension and optical illusion.
Here is a behind the scenes video of the first edition of Genius Loci Weimar, held in 2012 by Keuchel&Vogel which includes interview with our team, technical stuff, spectators and other participants of the festival! .
